Bottle-stopper



(.No Model.)

J. G. HIRSOH',

BOTTLE STOPPER.

Patented Nov. 1,1881.

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a double bend, as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, so that it will expose a larger surface to UNrrnn STATES PATENT QFrrcie.

JOHN G. HIRSGH, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,861, dated November 1, 1881.

Application filed July 8, 1881.

To all whom 'tt may concern Be it known that 1,J0HN G. HIRSOH, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle- Stoppers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to that class of stoppers for bottles in which effervescent liquids are stored that are designed to remain permanently in the bottle, and will be hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my device in position to inclose the mouth of the bottle. Fig. 2 is alike view of my device with the mouth of the bottle closed. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 illustrate modifications of my device. Figs. 7, S, and 9 are side views of tho stoppers shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 6, respectively.

The object of myinvention is to construct a bottle-stopper which has a sliding motion without any lateral frictional resistance, and which is kept from going wholly into the bottle by the construction ofthe neck of the latter, which is made with a shoulder or incline, as shown, to form a positive stop to the progress of the stopper downward beyond a certain point.

A is the bottle, which has a shoulder, a, in its neck, and this shoulder may be abrupt, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, or inclined, as in Fig. 3.

B is a stopper, which consists of a rubber disk passed upon the lower end of the rod 0 and secured thereon by buttons 0 c, the upper button being smaller than the lower button, that the disk or stopper B, when folded over it, may be able to pass through the neck into the bottle, and both buttons having screwthreaded perforations to engage with the threaded end of rod 0. The rod 0, extending up from the disk or stopper B, is recurved and bent downward to form shoulders c c, that, when the disk or stopper is thrust away from its seat, rest upon shoulder a in the bottle, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. I propose, in practice, however, to make the bail O separately, and loop or otherwise secure it to rod 0, and to give the wire of which it is composed (No model.)

i receive the blow which drives the stopper out of its seat. I make the sides of the bails sufficiently far apart to touch either side of the neck of the bottle when in place, but not wide enough apart to exert any frictional pressure, as the shoulders 00, acting or resting upon the shoulders (I. a of the bottle-neck, will prevent the bail from falling through.

I am aware that rubber stoppers have heretofore been suspended in bottles by rods depending from bails; but these bails were made to spring out against the sides of the bottleneck, and were therefore very hard to drive in, especially when new, and had to be forced in until their tops were flush with the top of the neck to carry the stopper far enough from its seat to admit the fluid or to permit the free emptying of the bottle. In my device the bail permits the stopper to drop as soon as it has been dislodged from its seat, which dislodgment is generally accomplished by a single blow.

I am also aware that heretofore the rubber stoppers have been suspended from rigid wires adapted to move vertically, and such I do not claim, broadly; but, so far as I know, I am the first to combine the rigid vertically-sliding wires of a bottle-stopper with a positive stop formed in the neck of the bottle to limit the downward movement of the stopper.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. The combination of the bottle A, having a stop, a, formed within its neck, with the rod (3 and shouldered hail of a bottle-stopper, the bail being adapted to slide vertically without lateral frictional contact with the bottle, and being limited in its downward movement by the positive stop a within the neck of the bottle, as set forth.

2. The combination of the bottle A, having stop a formed in its neck, with the rod 0 and shouldered bail 0, having rigid sliding sides, and rubber disk B, as set forth.

3. The combination of the bottle A, having stop a formed in its neck, with the shouldered bail C, recurved to increase the area of its top, and having unyielding wire sides adapted to slide vertically and rest upon the stop in the neck of the bottle, as set forth.

4. The combination of the bottle A, having stop Ct formed in its neck, with the rod O,rubber disk B, and the shouldered bail C, re-

curved to increase the area of its top, and havmove vertically within the neck of a bottle iug unyielding wire sides adapted to slide verwithout lateral frictional contact therewith, as

tically and rest upon the stop in the neck of set forth. the bottle, as set forth. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 5 5. As a new article of manufacture, abottle have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of IS stopper consisting of the rod (J, screw-threaded June, 1881.

at its lower end, and provided with rubber disk JOHN G. HIRSOH. B and securin g-button s, and the shouldered bail Vitnesses O, recurved at the top to increase the area, and S. S. STOUT,

10 having rigid wire sides, the whole adapted to F. W. ROBINSON. 

